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The American Review of Politics, Vol Back to Blue? Shifting Tides of Red and Blue and The Dole-Hagan Senate Race in North Carolina Jody C. Baumgartner, Peter L. Francia, Brad Lockerbie, and Jonathan S. Morris At the start of the 2008 election cycle, not many observers or analysts would have predicted that Senator Elizabeth Dole would lose her seat. Indeed, in their January 2008 analysis of U.S. Senate races, the non-partisan Cook Political Report rated Dole’s seat “solid Republican.” However, the dynamics in North Carolina began to change and Dole was on the long list of Republicans who had the potential to lose; by May the race had shifted to the “likely Republican” category, by the end of summer Dole’s seat was classified as “lean Republican,” and in the middle of the fall campaign it was judged as a “toss up.” This article explores the contest between Elizabeth Dole and Kay Hagan by tracing the factors that allowed this apparently “safe” Republican seat to be captured by Democrats in 2008. While we discuss a number of factors that help to explain Hagan’s victory, we suggest that a changing partisan electoral environment resulting from the immigra- tion of non-Southerners to the state not only favored this outcome, but may auger well for the Democratic Party in the future. In other words, a state that had shifted red during the past several decades may be reverting back to blue. Next, we outline the shifting electoral and demographic landscape in North Carolina and contrast the candidates. Then, we discuss the environ- mental factors arrayed against Dole in 2008, including the mood of the state, an economic crisis, the popularity of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in North Carolina, and a competitive Democratic primary that drew out a large number of newly registered Democrats. Finally, we examine the campaign in some detail, including the important issues, ______________ We would like to thank Hunter Bacot and the Elon University Polling Center for their assistance with providing data. JODY C BAUMGARTNER is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University. PETER L. FRANCIA is an associate professor of political science East Carolina University. BRAD LOCKERBIE is a professor political science and chair of the Department of Political Science at East Carolina University. JONATHAN S. MORRIS is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University. The American Review of Politics, Vol. 30, Summer, 2009: 213-228 ©2009 The American Review of Politics 214 | J.C. Baumgartner, P.L. Francia, B. Lockerbie, and J.S. Morris strategies and tactics of the candidates, and the effect the national campaigns of the parties and presidential candidates had on the race. The Setting Conventional wisdom suggests that North Carolina, like most southern states in the past 40 years, is a state that consistently votes for Republican candidates. Accounts reflect this in the popular press as well as scholarly research.1 The tide in North Carolina presidential politics began shifting toward the GOP as early as 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower captured a respectable 46 percent of the vote. In 1956, he increased his vote share in the state to 49.3 percent, and in 1960, Nixon garnered 47.9 percent of the vote.2 Since 1968, the only Democratic presidential candidate to win in North Carolina was Georgia native Jimmy Carter in 1976. Based upon this recent history, the idea that North Carolina was ‘in play’ for Barack Obama in 2008 attracted a good deal of media attention. Below the surface of presidential politics, however, the Tar Heel state is not as reliably Republican. Unlike some other southern states, North Carolina has a fairly competitive two- party system (Prysby 2008). Like much of the South, North Carolina was a solid Democratic state before about 1950. Starting at the presidential level it started to change. As noted above, Republican candidates for president (with the exception of Barry Goldwater) were competitive in North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s. Since 1976, Republican presidential candidates consistently garnered greater than 50 percent of the vote, and from 1984 through 2004, a greater percentage of the popular vote in North Carolina than their national average. Although there were a few election cycles in which their support declined, Republicans have steadily grown in the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1960. However, their support peaked in 1994 and declined somewhat since then. Elections to the 120 member state House and the 50 member state Senate followed a similar pattern. Democrats have re- mained firmly in control of the state Senate, and as the Republicans’ num- bers in the House waned throughout the last decade, they lost a controlling majority in 2006. Republican success at the gubernatorial level was limited as well. They won only three of the 12 elections for governor since 1960 (James Holshouser, Jr., in 1972, and James Martin in 1984 and 1988). At no point during this period, however, did the Republican vote share fall below 43 percent (Prysby 2008). Figures 1 and 2 illustrate that North Carolina cannot be simply characterized as a “red” state. Two-party competition is alive and well in the Tar Heel state. Partisan trends in elections to the U.S. Senate in North Carolina are harder to identify. The Dole-Hagan Senate Race in North Carolina | 215 Figure 1. Republican Strength in NC Federal Elections (1960-2006) Source: Prysby 2008; Leip 2009. Figure 2. Republican Strength in NC State Elections (1960-2006) Source: Prysby 2008. 216 | J.C. Baumgartner, P.L. Francia, B. Lockerbie, and J.S. Morris Elizabeth Dole’s Senate seat was the subject of much attention in the past few decades. Starting with Jesse Helms’ first bid for the Senate in 1972, in which he won with 54 percent of the vote, the seat was always very com- petitive. Helms never won more than 55 percent of the vote at any point in his career. If there is any merit to the concept of presidential coattails, Helms certainly was indebted to Richard Nixon and then Ronald Reagan. In 1990 and 1996, Helms was opposed by Harvey Gantt, garnering close to 53 per- cent of the vote in each of these contests. The 1990 race was particular rancorous due to a television ad run very close to Election Day by the Helms campaign that was criticized for the indirect use of racist themes. Mean- while, the other Senate seat in North Carolina was even more competitive and margins of victory even narrower. Moreover, there was a good bit of partisan turnover in this seat. In fact, since 1974, the seat has changed parties in every election cycle. There were other factors at work to suggest Dole’s defense of the seat may have been problematic. First, President Bush’s approval ratings dropped steadily in North Carolina throughout his second term. As much as a year before the 2008 election, only 10 percent of North Carolinians strongly approved of President Bush while 40 percent strongly disapproved.3 Second, the economy seemed to be in a freefall in the fall of 2008, which bodes ill for the party in power. Finally, the national economic crisis hit North Caro- lina particularly hard. The manufacturing base located in Eastern and North- ern North Carolina had bled jobs for decades, and this job loss was further accelerated by the economic crisis that hit during the fall of 2008. In the year preceding the election, unemployment in North Carolina rose from 4.7 per- cent to 7.7 percent. The crisis within the financial industry also affected the state. Charlotte is the financial hub of the Southeast: both Wachovia and Bank of America have their headquarters there. And, while blame associated with the cause of the financial crisis was thrown in all directions, President Bush and the Republican Party absorbed the majority of it. Although there were several factors that hampered the Republican Party’s efforts to successfully defend their control of Dole’s Senate seat, the defeat may also be indicative of larger trends within the state. North Caro- lina may be in the midst of a demographic realignment. The population of the state has consistently increased in recent years. Figure 3 shows this growth, illustrating that it exceeded national averages, never falling below 100,000 in the past 15 years. The dramatic increase since the turn of the century is especially noteworthy. Of course, by itself population growth does not signify a partisan shift. But recent survey data do suggest a distinct trend among those migrating to North Carolina. Relying on data from 2005, Vercellotti (2008) found that native born North Carolinians were more conservative than those NC residents who were born outside the state. He The Dole-Hagan Senate Race in North Carolina | 217 Figure 3. North Carolina Population Growth Per Year (1992-2008) Source: U.S. Census Bureau (www.census.gov). also concluded that this trend was more pronounced in North Carolina than in the rest of the south. More recent data further demonstrate a strengthening progressive base in the state. An Elon University Poll taken in March of 2009 found that 23 percent of those who have lived in the state ten years or less classify them- selves as “liberal” or “very liberal.” This is in clear contrast to those who have lived in the state 30 years or more: only seven percent of this group identify themselves as liberal or very liberal. Furthermore, those moving into North Carolina who do not classify themselves as liberal are more likely to register to vote as Democratic or unaffiliated rather than Republican.
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